What Kids Need Moncton opened its own store in Riverview in May.
What Kids Need Moncton store served more than 300 people in its first week
Raechel Huizinga · CBC News
· Posted: May 23, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Amanda Pooley, founder of What Kids Need Moncton, opened the organization’s first official space in May. (Raechel Huizinga/CBC)
Amanda Pooley needed a shirt for her young son — a surprise child she had in her 40s — so she opened a bag that someone had donated to her not-for-profit and pulled one out.
She recognized the shirt immediately; it had belonged to her older child at some point in the 15 years since she started What Kids Need Moncton.
This wasn’t exactly surprising. Items often cycled in and out as children outgrew them and parents returned the clothes to Pooley’s non-profit organization for the next kid.
With a team of volunteers, she’d spent over a decade operating this gift economy, a system where items and services are exchanged freely between people out of storage spaces, garages and spare basements.
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